Everything went as expected so far.BL was upgraded from 2.4.20 to 2.5.3, so far so good.Next step should be to boot and access BL monitor menu to erase flash, right?Here comes the problem.I can't get the simpad to react pressing the ESC key. It just boots asnormal whatever I do.

Terminal settings are 38400 8N1. I've tried it on 2 computers, with HT and MiniCom, no luck.

Is IS possible to do this even with a "simple" serial cable, right????Or am I missing something?

Help!

Sorry for my not so good english, hope you understand.

Hunz

Apr 1 2006, 03:29 PM

RX, TX and GND are sufficient - I'm using only these 3 lines myself (http://hunz.geekheim.de/?p=5)

Your terminal settings are ok.

Did you press it all the time? If not try the following:- press esc, keep pressed- press the reset button while keeping esc pressed- keep esc pressed ;-)

after a few seconds the bootloader should react by printing the menu all the time while esc is pressed

have you verified that you can send data from the pc to the pad via serial with some program?

gribbe

Apr 2 2006, 11:20 AM

QUOTE(Hunz @ Apr 2 2006, 01:29 AM)

Did you press it all the time? If not try the following:- press esc, keep pressed- press the reset button while keeping esc pressed- keep esc pressed ;-)

I've tried every possible combination.. pressing ESC a moment before reset,pressing ESC at the same time as reset, pressing ESC a moment after reset,.. and so on.. no luck so far..

QUOTE(Hunz @ Apr 2 2006, 01:29 AM)

have you verified that you can send data from the pc to the pad via serial with some program?

I have successfully upgraded the bootloader from 2.4.20 to 2.5.3 followingthe instructions I've found on this forum.So the cable seems to work ok.

I have no clue what so ever what to try next...

fladda

Apr 2 2006, 11:51 AM

I assume that you have been pressing the escape key on the serial terminal's keyboard - this should work.

Another way to get the menu to appear, is to reset your Simpad whilst at the same time holding down the lower Simpad front-panel key (the key that brings up the on-screen keypad in WinCE). Just successfully tested this with the 2.5.3 bootloader.

Ralph

gribbe

Apr 2 2006, 12:44 PM

QUOTE(fladda @ Apr 2 2006, 09:51 PM)

I assume that you have been pressing the escape key on the serial terminal's keyboard - this should work.

Another way to get the menu to appear, is to reset your Simpad whilst at the same time holding down the lower Simpad front-panel key (the key that brings up the on-screen keypad in WinCE). Just successfully tested this with the 2.5.3 bootloader.

Ralph

Tried this.. no luck It just keeps on booting as if I never pressed ESC.

I wonder if it can be some wrong settings in hyperterminal?Which terminal type should it emulate? VT100, ANSI or something else?I'm using swedish keyboard, does this affect hyperterminal in any way?Is there any other settings in HT I can change? I'm out of ideas.

gribbe

Apr 2 2006, 01:12 PM

Update:

I fiddled around in HT a bit and finally succeded in accessing the monitor menu!I had wrong setting in "terminal type"..

Is there anyone who can post the exact settings for hyperterminal you've usedsucessfully? I don't mean 38400 8N1 but the other settings.

gribbe

Apr 3 2006, 10:04 PM

Problem solved!

I got tired to wait so I skipped the "erase flash section" and jumped right to serload blupdater.img instead.It went fine so I followed the rest of the instructions to install Opie 0.9-rc1, and now it'srunning fine!

I have some problems but I will start a new thread about that..Thanks for the help anyway..

hansen

Jul 9 2006, 06:05 AM

I had the same problem like gribbe.fladdas hint did it, so I added:

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Another way to get the menu to appear, is to reset your Simpad whilst at the same time holding down the lower Simpad front-panel key (the key that brings up the on-screen keypad in WinCE)